SKESA

Assembly

SKESA is a de-novo sequence read assembler for microbial genomes. It uses conservative heuristics and is designed to create breaks at repeat regions in the genome. This leads to excellent sequence quality without significantly compromising contiguity.

Repository: github.com/ncbi/skesa

Source attribution

Awesome Bioinformatics — github.com/ncbi/skesa

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